How to Maximise Your Personal Growth

Copyright (c) 2009 Alan Gillies

Each and every one of us makes mistakes, don't we? Whether these mistakes are incredibly big or quite small we still must make specific decisions in our daily life, and it's entirely possible that some of these decisions - not being good ones, won't pay off as we hope they will. It's certainly a part human nature to make all kinds of mistakes, but the best part about this is that the sum total of these mistakes will eventually lead to a colossal leap forward toward success.

Success isn't just a matter of being perfect in everything you do - as perfection comes only from time and experience. How can you differentiate a wrong decision from a right one without knowing what is right and what is wrong? As rightly said by Fred Shero, "Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire".

If you are not making mistakes, it may be that you're playing on the safe side and not taking any risks. In every mistake you make, there's a hidden lesson. You'll end up learning many things from those mistakes, and the next time you arrive at a similar situation or problem - you won't repeat the earlier actions, and perhaps you'll even make a perfect decision which will lead to extraordinarily fruitful results.

It is a famous saying that those who have not experienced failure can never know how sweet the taste of success is. If you always succeed easily, then you will never be able to prepare yourself to face the inevitable mistakes and failures. Your strength in overcoming mistakes can make you a role model in the eyes of others who want to learn from your experience, so they can then deal with situations in the same successful manner.

In the past, there have been several successful inventions which were far more than momentary thoughts. Those inventions appeared after considering a great many alternatives and choosing the best from all of them. Many experiments have been done to verify the viability of each of the alternatives, and quite a bit of money and effort was spent to figure out the best solutions, but that doesn't mean that the expense invested into the experiments got wasted. A great deal of knowledge and experience was gained from those experiments, and all of this was then utilised in the refinement of the final experiments done at later stages.

So, now what do you think, aren't mistakes an essential aspect of success? Mistakes can happen anywhere and at any time, and it's a fundamental part of human behaviour to make mistakes. The key here is to strive to deal with the mistakes in a positive manner and always try to learn something new from each one of them.


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Alan Gillies is the Managing Director of the L2L Group. He specialises in supplying Executive Coaching, Training and Consultancy Services to International Businesses across the World. Want to discover more about these inspiring business building success strategies? Get Alan's insightful FREE Business Pack right now!